Bug#495455: mplayer: xvmc support nonfunctional (Cannot find codec 'mpegvideo_xvmc' in libavcodec...)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-10-27 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Version: 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1

> On 2010-10-27 "Nathan A. Stine" <nathan.stine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can you still duplicate this problem in the current unstable version?  I
> > wonder if the version of libavcodec did not have XVMC enabled at that
> > time.

> > XVMC works for me with my graphics card...

> > Best regards,

> > Nathan A. Stine

> sid chroot works. closing. 

> thanks, cu andreas

Actually ~/.mplayer/config seems to have been the culprit. Removing

lavdopts =      threads=2

fixed the issue.

cu andreas